Burgers

After spending Christmas week skiing in and around Frisco, we decided to stay an extra night in Denver before undertaking the long drive back to Texas. Luckily, about halfway between the two, and just in time for lunch, sits the…

San Luis Valley Brewing Co. 631 Main St. Alamosa, CO 81101 New Mexico Councilmember #1: “Man, truckloads of Texans are cutting through our Northeast corner to get to Colorado on 87 from Amarillo.” New Mexico Councilmember #2: “You know that thing…

Brewpubs are a special breed, and can often be hard to manage profitably or with any sort of notoriety thanks to restrictive beer laws in many parts of the country. Despite that, the Hunter-Gatherer has become one of Columbia’s most…

Brews Brothers 2404 Strand St Galveston, Texas In this day and age when you can find craft beer at stadiums and even gas stations, I was surprised to find on a recent weekend in Galveston that craft beer was rather…

I knew when the man with a megaphone came out at 10:00 pm to announce it was “BURGER TIME!” that the folks at Holeman & Finch had taken Ra’s Al Ghul’s advice to Bruce Wayne about theatricality rather seriously. Or,…

A couple of years ago, the Chronicle’s Alison Cook addressed Houston’s “Lump Crab Syndrome” and lamented restaurants’ overuse of the otherwise welcome crustacean. At the time, I would have suggested a crowning fried egg as the next new fad, long…

Because who wants chicken from a Filipino food truck? Not that they don’t make it, and not that it wouldn’t be excellent, but when you’re going to splurge on fantastic food truck fare like that from Flip ‘n Patties, why…

In the context of these pages, there could perhaps be no better pairing than food trucks and breweries. They go together like lamb and tuna fish. The Karbach Brewery has a steady rotation of mobile eateries at their Saturday tours,…

Before undertaking the trek home from a weekend in Austin, we took advantage of a leisurely Sunday afternoon and headed to South Congress, sort of a one-stop-shop if you’ve only got a few hours: vintage resale shops, live music in…

Perhaps the best known burger from the Petrol Station’s menu is the Rancor, a beast of an Angus beef burger with bacon, bacon, and more bacon, topped with a fried egg – fully living up to its portcullis-prone Star Wars…